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A Disability Inclusion Advisor from Light for the World in Mozambique being interviewed by a local TV station. The DIF is a woman who uses a wheelchair.
A Disability Inclusion Advisor in Mozambique being interviewed by a local TV station. © Mango Sound/Light for the World.

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Three young people with disabilities participating in the first workshops of the We Can Work Programme. They are posing for a photo. The man in the middle gives a
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A Disability Inclusion Advisor from Light for the World in Mozambique being interviewed by a local TV station. The DIF is a woman who uses a wheelchair.
A Disability Inclusion Advisor in Mozambique being interviewed by a local TV station. © Mango Sound/Light for the World.
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Two people smile in front of a blackboard, holding their hands spread out, with palms to the camera. A boy sits on the rights, wearing a blue polo-shirt, he has his arm around his mum's shoulders - to the left - who is wearing a black and orange polka dot top and a white pearl bracelet.
Mauen Makuac Riak, a 15-year old student, and his mother smile together in a classroom, after taking part in a Sign Language training. “I want to continue my studies to become a teacher like one of the Light for the World facilitators who have been training me in sign language,” says Mauen. © Nema Juma / Light for the World.
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A woman takes part in a Cyclone Simulation exercise in Buzi, Mozambique as part of the ICDP project, funded by Austrian Development Agency. Gender is mainstreamed throughout the project, ensuring that women and girls with disabilities are included in creating emergency response plans to climate-related disasters. She is wearing an bright orange hat and vest, and is using a megaphone. She's standing outside in front of some vegetation.
A woman takes part in a Cyclone Simulation exercise in Buzi, Mozambique as part of the ICDP project, funded by Austrian Development Agency. Gender is mainstreamed throughout the project, ensuring that women and girls with disabilities are included in creating emergency response plans to climate-related disasters. Copyright: Mango Sound/Light for the World
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A young woman smiles as she looks into the camera. She is standing outside, in front of a brick wall, and wears a yellow dress, with a patterned red and maroon scarf around her neck. She is gently holding onto a wooden stick.
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Several people from OPDs in South Sudan stand on stage, celebrating and dancing. Many wave crutches in the air.
OPDs celebrate the signing of the UNCRPD in South Sudan
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Husband, wife and child smiling and being happy over the fact that Tesfanesh (the wife) got an eye surgery and can see again. Tesfanesh is looking at the camera, smiling with an eye patch on her left eye. She is holding is standing in front of her husband, holding her child.
Tesfanesh Tadese Äthiopien 2019 © Ulrich Eigner

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Light for the World believes an inclusive society is better for all!

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Our approach

A young man with a protective mask and apron stands in front of a red coffee machine and prepares fresh coffee.
Sign Language is used for communication in the Endiro Café © Erika Bojarczuk
Supporting people with disabilities

Barriers to inclusion are still high and many. From the classroom to the workplace and beyond, Discrimination against people with disabilities must end now.

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In der ersten Reihe auf einer Holzschulbank sitzen sieben Jugendliche mit Brillen. Sie alle tragen ein blaues Hemd und blicken in die Kamera.
Brillenverteilung in Schulen© Gregor Kuntscher
Championing inclusive education

Education lays the groundwork for a self-determined future. But more than 32.5 million children with disabilities in poorer regions are denied this right. We fight to change this.

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An elderly woman who has just had an operation sits smiling in front of a red wall and looks directly into the camera. She is wearing beige linen clothes with dark green ornaments.
Ethiopia 2015 © Light for the World
Promoting eye health

The rate of untreated eye disease is 90% in low-income countries. Everyone deserves access to quality eye care, regardless of where they live or how much they earn.

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Together, we are changing lives. Check out what we did in 2023:

125,600

people with disabilities reached through our disability inclusion programmes

28,699

students with disabilities received access to education

51,229

eye operations